Penelope Fitzgerald — Offshore
London, Collins, 1979. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this Booker Prize-winning novel from Penelope Fitzgerald. It recalls Fitzgerald's time spent on boats in Battersea by the Thames. The novel centralises around the idea of liminality, expanding upon it to include the notion: 'liminal people,' people who do not belong to the land or the sea, but somewhere in-between. The epigraph, "che mena il vento, e che batte la pioggia, e che s'incontran con si aspre lingue" (whom the wind drives, or whom the rain beats, or those who clash with such bitter tongues) comes from Canto XI of Dante's Inferno. In a cloth binding with original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, smart. Some light bumping to the boards. Dustwrapper has some sunning and marks, along with a couple of chips. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright, with just a few instances of foxing. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good/Very Good.
